负
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to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 貝 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 負
- Common rank
- #899
- Unicode
- U+8D1F
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
defeated · Heisig RSH #64
bound up + 贝 shellfish + oyster
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 负
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 正负电子 | positrons and electrons | |
| 皇天不负苦心人 | Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to … | |
| 电负性 | electronegativity | |
| 负外部性 | negative influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society) | |
| 后果自负 | to take responsibility for the consequences of risky behavior; to have only oneself to bla… | |
| 负相关 | negative correlation | |
| 不分胜负 | unable to determine victory or defeat (idiom); evenly matched; to come out even; to tie; t… | |
| 身负重伤 | seriously injured | |
| 非负数 | a nonnegative number (i.e. positive or zero) | |
| 负一层 | (architecture) basement level 1; floor B1 | |
| 正负号 | (math.) plus or minus sign; ± | |
| 负心汉 | traitor to one's love; heartless rat | |
| 负离子 | negative ion; anion (physics) | |
| 不负 | to live up to | |
| 负能量 | negative energy; negativity | |
| 负心 | ungrateful; heartless; to fail to be loyal to one's love | |
| 自负 | conceited; to take responsibility | |
| 负有 | to be responsible for | |
| 负气 | in a pique; sulky; cross | |
| 负电 | negative electric charge |